Show EIGHTY SIXTH BIRTHDAY celebration OF WOMAN AN SUF IN HONOR OF MISS ANTHONY protest against laws which pillow allow mothers small protection over children plea for exercises of corrective ballot it Is a rare occurrence when noted men of tho the country gather together to do honor to a woman who has worked and striven for a causo cause to which many of them are antagonistic yet this was tho the case a week or two ago when statesmen political leaders jurists and literary lights joined in paying homage to miss susan B D anthony tho the great woman suffragist on the occasion of her eighty sixth birth day this niec ting was hold la in washington D C la in february miss bliss anthony of course being present to listen to tho the addresses and words of felicity she had just como come from a convention of woman suffragists in baltimore among tho the letters of congratulation read was one from president roosevelt which said let nio mo join in ia congratulating miss bliss susan B anthony on tho the occasion of her eighty sixth birthday and extend my best wishes to her upon her bar continued good health in reply to tho the numerous congratulations miss anthony owing to a severe cold coull confined ned her remarks to these few words 1 I wish tho the men would do something besides extend congratulations I 1 1 have asked president roosevelt to push the matter of a constitutional lamen amendment dment allowing suffrage to women by a recommendation to congress I 1 would rather have him blin tay gay a word to congress for tho the causo cause than to praise TOO me endlessly the rev anna howard shaw a prominent woman leader presided over tho the meeting introducing tile the alters ar a incidentally poking much fun at the members of the sterner sex sho she said bald that any man who accepts a post of especial learning immediately dons a gown it was true of college professors of graduates and of men mea who sat upon the supreme bench she stated that at tho the gown Is a symbol of wisdom over one It hundred undred woman leaders d celebration 1 1 fifty advocates of woman swooped cooped down on tho the mom Ki angress ng reas and hurled at the all sorts of feminine oratory eject rn in appealing to the fihe he capitol the argument jy y the women that god did the female to bo be n and that she should be U a through the ballot abo he principal address was made by iss mary thomas of baltimore who protested against tho the laws dis criminating against women 1 we havo have no right to tho the children we e have cradled in our loving arms beyond the age of seven years she bhe said eald and now our boys of eighteen need not ask our permission to join the army and navy it if their fathers are willing the girls of maryland who cannot contract legal marriages uder under sixteen years of age may then cent to their own degradation and their destroyer yo go freo free think of this terrible injustice to ignorance and innocence Inno cenca and grant us the power to protect tho the child who cannot protect himself the saloon keeper tho the cigarette vender and tho the gambler may ply their nefarious trades next door to our very homes and we ore are powerless power lesa to save the boys of the land from their influx enca wo we ask of coneless Con Conf eress Tess the right to cli express press our opinion at the ballot box because it will be the surest and safest way to accomplish what we desire |